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Sailmaker's Apprentice
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Sailmaker's Apprentice Papeback - - 1st Edition

by Christine Erikson Emiliano Marino

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The McGraw-Hill Company , pp. 481 . Papeback. New.
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  • Title Sailmaker's Apprentice
  • Author Christine Erikson Emiliano Marino
  • Binding Papeback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The McGraw-Hill Company , Camden, Maine, U.S.A.
  • Date pp. 481
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6649973
  • ISBN 9780071376426 / 0071376429
  • Weight 1.95 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 18.80 x 2.79 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 797.124

From the publisher

Learn how to design, make, repair, improve, and maintain sails

If you want to produce sturdy sails for daysailing and cruising, built of low-tech materials you can repair with a few simple tools, The Sailmaker's Apprentice can show you how. Emphasizing the handwork that distinguishes the highest-quality, most durable sails, sail pro Emiliano Marino tells you how to select a rig, introduces you to sail shape and theory, and then shows you -- step by step, with the help of over 700 detailed illustrations -- how to sew patches, hand sew rings, fix tears or frayed edges, and stitch seams, not to mention how to make your own sails, canvas sailcovers, and sailbags from scratch.

A visual feast for the sailor as well as an indispensable guide for the mariner comprehensive apprenticeship, this hands-on reference is an illustrated tour of the world's rig and sail types, contemporary and historical.

First line

SEE HOW SHE SCHOONS!

From the rear cover

"A clearly illustrated, superb step-by-step guide."--Cruising World

More than a how-to guide to designing, making, repairing, and improving sails, The Sailmaker's Apprentice combines 700 detailed drawings with a witty, wise, and philosophically probing commentary that is as much about living a life of self-reliance and harmony as it is about making sails. Here you will find a visual feast for the sailor as well as an indispensable guide for the mariner.

"The basics of traditional sailmaking . . . are artfully, lavishly, even passionately elaborated and enriched. . . . The author has created not just a new standard reference . . . but a virtual epic poem. . . . The best and most comprehensive book on sailmaking and sail repair to be published in a long time."--WoodenBoat

"Reveals true mastery."--Northern Mariner

"The accepted standard volume on sailmaking."--Ensign

About the author

Emiliano Marino is a lifelong sailor and has been making sails since 1974. He has written about sailmaking and sail care in Small Boat Journal and WoodenBoat.

Christine Erikson, also a sailmaker, illustrates for Threads, among other magazines.